Let's talk about... peat
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- Опубликовано: 25 фев 2021
- Make sense of how compressed vegetable remains become responsible for those powerful smoky aromas in Scotch whisky with this neat peat explainer video from one of our whisky lecturers, Dr Gordon Steele.
Very well presented. I want some right now!
Thank you, very interesting, Islay and other smokey scotch are my favourites.
Excellent and very informative. Thanks!
Nothing like a good peated scotch. Very interesting. Thanks.
What an intelligent man who does an amazing job at (excuse me) distilling this information down for us laymen... It's almost like he's the personification of Scotch itself ha! Love these videos. Can we please get away from coloring.... please? I mean, at least when we are paying 60, 80, 100, 180, per bottle. I think at this level, the buyer does not care much about the color. I don't mind that my PC 10 looks like a Chardonnay. They should have to add caramel dye to the end of the ancient folklore about centuries old springs and creeks when it is added. I wonder if the wave of sherry casks is also an avenue to get the desired color without caramel.
Question. Do they use peat to dry the malting barley and stop the malting process before sending it to make the mash. Or is just to smoke the malt?
I think it’s used to stop the malting process (though I’m not sure 100%..)
Yes, the burning peat both dries and smokes the malt. Sometimes peat is only used for some of the initial drying process and it’s finished with some other type of heat source that won’t impact the flavour.
yeah right, it takes thousands of years for peat to form. Are dinosaurs involved as well? what about tooth fairies, how many of them are needed for peat to form?
Yes peat forms when ancient dinosaur shit gets mixed with fairy dust
@newnewmee44. I guess you weren’t paying attention. He said it takes thousands of years to create a Peat Bog. Not just to create peat. There is a difference. He said peat forms at a rate of 1mm per year. He did neglect to mention how large these peat bogs are and the relation to that growth. He did mention Scotland has 5 peat bogs licensed for whisky making and they use less than that 1mm formation but he didn’t mention how huge these peat bogs were. The largest peat bog is Scotland is 4,000 km2 (1,500 sq mi). So the info missing is in what relation is that 1mm peat growth to the bog itself? Is it the very edges of the bog and how much of that 4,000km2 is considered edge?
Don't let Gretta Thumberg find out your burning peat.😁🥱🥴